angeles which ridiculed the prophet. was the motivation a planned 9/11 marking by a terrorist group or was it an opportunistic move which jumped on this video and used that as a cause to attack? which one? >> well, chris, based on the reporting we've had out of cairo from my great colleague david kirkpatrick it seems to line up very well with what we're hearing from u.s. intelligence forces, is that this was motivated some by the video but that the group that did it were militants and looking for an excuse. you can ask the question, would they have done something on september 11th even absent the video in i don't think i've got, at least, right now sufficient clarity on that question. what we do know is there was no demonstration that turned into a bigger militant attack. in fact, it began as a militant attack. it may have been motivated in part by word of the video which, of course, was spreading from egypt and other places. the protests in egypt had been just a few hours before. >> well, how did ambassador rice get the